#usa

My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage. ↗

— Gary Lineker

#brother-in-law #brought #coverage #fact #fiancee

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower. ↗

— Gary Locke

#china #compass #economic #gunpowder #history

I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#course #enter #entered #environment #factory

My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear. ↗

— James Longstreet

#broken #changed #command #corps #defeat

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band. ↗

— Courtney Love

#band #bought #comedy #everybody #i

There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#dance #dance floor #feeling #floor #humanity

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#brooding #dreaming #easy #everything #evils

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#dracula #find #i #played #screen

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. ↗

— Martin Luther

#confidence #could #daring #faith #god

Night hath a thousand eyes. ↗

— John Lyly

#hath #night #thousand